Newborn not sleeping through the day

Minstadave said:
Many Mums struggle to breast feed, many choose not to. The evidence isn't all that amazing for breast feeding in term babies anyway.

I'm not sure shaming people's feeding choices is a productive or understanding approach.
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What are they struggling from if they are medically healthy, Laziness? Breast is best and I'm not choosing to give my kid the best. Need that energy to get the world record of putting baby into day orphanage.
 
Our youngest was the same and he's 5 now. I'm afraid you just have to adapt to the little buggers not sleeping. My boy slept well during the night but wakes up early too, which means a long day for me. My eldest was completely different. On occasion he would sleep for 3 hours during the day and then went and had 12 hours at night.

Regards breast being best, true, but only if the mother can extract enough milk!
 
Tosno said:
What are they struggling from if they are medically healthy, Laziness? Breast is best and I'm not choosing to give my kid the best. Need that energy to get the world record of putting baby into day orphanage.
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You haven't got a clue have you, outside your own little bubble.
 
It happens. As a new father one of the things i spent most of my time doing was walking. Kid crying and wont settle, pick them up and walk around, sometimes singing. Baby needs a nap but wont go, in the pram they go and get the step count up. If its your first, this is when mum gets a chance to rest.

With our second my wife had to always take our son out in his pram to get him to sleep for a while. She spent mornings and afternoons in the park just walking around, often bumpy paving is the best for them. After a while, they will settle and eventually go down to nap in the house with possibly some coaxing. My son never napped in his bed, always his pram, eventually in the downstairs loo as it was pitch black and had white noise on. Our own little gitmo bay.

Only comfort i can offer is, it's spring/summer, so going out so wont be as bad. Mines were winter babies uggggg.

If it's really miserable outside, try driving around with them till they go to sleep, then park up until they wake up and then in the house.
 
baby won't go to sleep if it knows your constantly giving it attention at any crocodile tears or slightest sound, it will just try to stay awake until it gets really tired then turns angry
 
lols ...sorry .. at least there sleeping at night .. try blackout curtains .. but my guess it's feed .. a baby needs to feel full to sleep ..
both mine are 30 and still need to be looked after :P
 
Well, today i tried white noise, clothes in cot and a few other methods.

pretty much cried from 5pm till now and still going as i guess he’s over tired.

had plenty of feeds, nappy, winding and cuddles.

left him in his cot last hour and just screaming none stop, picked him up offer him a drink,a cuddle and nappy change and still kept screaming.

About to go for a drive.
 
My daughter was the same, the first 18 months were hell for everyone. There wasn't anything special we needed to do, it was just **** :p I walked her about on my shoulder every night for months, to the breaking point and beyond. Did the usual, pram walks helped, car journeys helped. While I was working from home taking her to the coffee shop and sitting behind the very noisy coffee machine helped. At 18 months she was sleeping through the night in her own cot.

Would not recommend parenting. Actually, no, it's great. Like the Marathon
 
Love it!

our lad was unsettled at night. We ended up playing background sounds which I think helped. It was zen sounds app I think. Just something to put on as background noise.

he’s so used to having sound through the night now he insists on smooth radio playing ! (Old before his time at 9!)
 
Had similar with our first baby, it turned out he was intolerant to cow's milk protein. Not suggesting there is evidence of that here (given your son seems to sleep better at night) but something to keep in mind. We'd gone through the whole reflux thing, trips to the GP, gaviscon etc but then one day at about 3 months old he had blood in his nappy so we took him to A&E where the doctor figured it out. I was sceptical at first but it made a big difference moving to a formula without cow's milk protein.
 
You could try reading posts from the brexit thread?
I heard merry-go-rounds are great for sending kids to sleep?
 
HangTime said:
Had similar with our first baby, it turned out he was intolerant to cow's milk protein. Not suggesting there is evidence of that here (given your son seems to sleep better at night) but something to keep in mind. We'd gone through the whole reflux thing, trips to the GP, gaviscon etc but then one day at about 3 months old he had blood in his nappy so we took him to A&E where the doctor figured it out. I was sceptical at first but it made a big difference moving to a formula without cow's milk protein.
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damn seeing the blood in the nappy i bet your heart sank!. Scary


after 45 minute car ride my 3 year old was out in 5 minutes, where as baby literally fell asleep just as i pulled on the drive.

Put my 3 year old in his bed etc and just sat in the car playing on my phone for a bit while he slept, this was about 9pm.

i made the mistake of thinking this was him for the night and as soon as i opened the car door he woke up -.-

after about an hour and another bottle he had another good night time sleep, from about 10-4 then woke up at 7:30.
 
I wonder....

Thinking is there a way to simulate the sound/feel of a car ride? Like putting a subwoofer under the cot and play the sound (quietly) of tires on road? Like this but with more bass
 
Both my daughters suffered with silent reflux, we had a nightmare getting it diagnosed even with the youngest, the health visitor brushed off all suggestions despite my wife's medical background. One diagnosed it took us a long time of trial and error to get the correct dose on my eldest and naturally went this route with the youngest but that medication didn't touch the youngest and had to start all over with different medication before it had any effect, both were different girls once we'd found the correct dose.
 
Have you checked them for cows milk protein allergy?

The comfort milk has smaller proteins to help them digest but it might be that they are actually not able to tolerate the cows milk protein.

Both my girls had this issue... First time was an absolute nightmare and sounds very similar to you. 2nd time we know what we were doing.

Speak to your doctor and ask them about their thoughts and see if they will prescribe Nutremigen.

To note the likes of Soya has very similar proteins to cows milk so try stay away from then. Stick to the likes of Oat milk or almond milk etc.
 
HangTime said:
Had similar with our first baby, it turned out he was intolerant to cow's milk protein. Not suggesting there is evidence of that here (given your son seems to sleep better at night) but something to keep in mind. We'd gone through the whole reflux thing, trips to the GP, gaviscon etc but then one day at about 3 months old he had blood in his nappy so we took him to A&E where the doctor figured it out. I was sceptical at first but it made a big difference moving to a formula without cow's milk protein.
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I've literally just posted about this... It really does sound similar to our experiences. We were lucky enough to have a GP who had children with the issues so we didn't have to go too far down the line as you guys.
 
GinG said:
Have you checked them for cows milk protein allergy?

The comfort milk has smaller proteins to help them digest but it might be that they are actually not able to tolerate the cows milk protein.

Both my girls had this issue... First time was an absolute nightmare and sounds very similar to you. 2nd time we know what we were doing.

Speak to your doctor and ask them about their thoughts and see if they will prescribe Nutremigen.

To note the likes of Soya has very similar proteins to cows milk so try stay away from then. Stick to the likes of Oat milk or almond milk etc.
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No 3 month old should be on Soya/Oat or Almond milk.
 
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